Daily Tech News 1 January 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The dumbest things that happened in tech all year, apart from tech journalism. (Tech Crunch)
Not entirely a bad list.
I mean, the list is good. The things that happened were stupid, which makes it a good list of stupid things.
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New Years' Rockin' Eve Cafe
—Ace
Chinese are good at fireworks.
Are you celebrating? I've got my "big move" planned.
Guy invents a kickass exercise for The End Times and finds out that other gym-goers want to learn his moves.
Me, starting now.
Cynics will say that this is AI
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Minnesota Policy Allows Voters to "Vouch" for Up to Eight Unregistered People (Who Don't Show Proof of Citizenship, Of Course) to Allow Them to Vote Through Same-Day Registration
—Ace
Disqualify Minnesota's electoral votes. We cannot allow brazen election theft.
A controversial Minnesota election policy that allows a single registered voter to "vouch" for up to eight people seeking same-day registration is under fire amid the state's massive fraud scandal tied to the Somali community there.Under Minnesota law, the registered voter must go with the person or people they are vouching for to the polling place and sign an oath verifying their address, according to the Office of the Minnesota Secretary of State.
"A registered voter from your precinct can go with you to the polling place to sign an oath confirming your address. This is known as 'vouching.' A registered voter can vouch for up to eight voters," the website reads.
Those being vouched for still must provide at least one form of identity verification, which includes a valid Minnesota driver's license or learner's permit, a "receipt" for them, or a tribal identification card that includes a photo and signature, according to the rules.Vouching is then used to verify a potential voter's residence in the precinct.
As long as the prospective voter can prove they live in the state, proof of ID can include a driver's license or learner's permit from any of the 50 states, a passport, an expired ID, military ID, or high school or college ID.
However, critics have noted that Gov. Tim Walz's 2023 "Driver's Licenses for All" bill allows people to obtain licenses regardless of immigration status. Licenses carry no marking indicating citizenship, despite being regularly used to register to vote.
"It was made for fraud," Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, declared in on X.
US Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said he believes his SAVE Act (Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility) could throw a wrench into Minnesota's policy.
Under the bill, which passed in the House but has stalled in the Senate, voters would be required to provide proof of citizenship to cast their ballots in federal elections.
It would establish criminal penalties for election officials who register applicants who have not provided such documentation.
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Wall Street Journal: Yes, Trump Kicked Epstein Out of Mar-a-Lago in 2003 After Being Informed Epstein Pressured an 18-Year-Old Spa Worker for Sex
—Ace
Via Ed Morrissey:
Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a frequent visitor to Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The club was also sending spa employees--usually young women--to Epstein's nearby mansion for massages, manicures and other spa services, according to former Mar-a-Lago and Epstein employees. ...The spa occasionally provided house calls for members. Epstein wasn't a dues-paying member of the club, but Trump told staff to treat him like one, the employees said. Epstein had an account at the spa where his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, booked appointments on his behalf.
They came to a halt in 2003, after an 18-year-old beautician returned to the club from a house call to Epstein and reported to managers that he had pressured her for sex, former employees said.
A manager sent Trump a fax relaying the employee's allegations and urged him to ban Epstein, some of the former employees said. Trump told the manager it was a good letter and said to kick him out.
Morrissey adds:
The WSJ notes that Mar-a-Lago aestheticians and spa workers had begun warning each other about Epstein previous to this incident. However, all of these employees were "typically licensed," which means they were adults. The young woman in this incident was 18 years old at the time it occurred. Furthermore, this appears to be the first time that the employees raised this concern all the way to Trump himself. As soon as Trump heard about it, he acted to cut off Epstein's access to Mar-a-Lago and stopped socializing with him at the same time.
Somali Pirate: Racist Thieves Broke Into Our Very Legitimate Day Care and Stole All the Enrollment and Employee Records That Would Prove This Is a Legitimate Business and Not a Pirate Plundering Operation
—Ace
Drat -- the racist thieves stole the very documents that would allow the pirates to clear their good piratical names!
Oh, and he slips it in that they tore off checks from the "day care's" checkbook, too. Not the whole checkbook, for some reason, but just certain checks.
So if you find any checks from the company going to pay for obviously-personal luxuries -- well, that must have been the racist thieves.
He also -- get this -- claims to be a victim of racism, you Racists.
A Somali-run day care in Minneapolis is claiming somebody broke in and stole "important documents" as the national spotlight shines on the unfolding multibillion-dollar fraud scandal involving Minnesota human services.Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, told reporters that a suspect entered through the kitchen at the rear of the facility, damaging a wall and breaking into the building's office, sometime on Tuesday.
He said the alleged prowler stole "important documentation" including children's enrollment information, employee documentation and checkbooks.
Nasrulah Mohamed, manager of Nakomis Day Care Center, at a press conference with other individuals, one of whom holds a sign that reads "Racism Has NO Place in Childcare". ]
Absolute LOL.
Look at that uggo Karen holding her Racists Repent! sign.
Mohamed blamed last week's viral video by YouTuber Nick Shirley, in which he visited nearly a dozen day care facilities looking for evidence of fraud, for the incident.
"This is devastating news, and we don't know why this is targeting our Somali community as one video made by a specific individual made this all happen," he said, claiming they've received "hateful" and "threatening" messages over the last several days."This is frightening and exhausting," he said, calling Shirley's reporting "false."
Nakomis Day Care Center was not one of the facilities featured in Shirley's video, which has been viewed over 110 million times.
At least $1 billion in fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Minneapolis so far, including fraudulent food, housing and child care payments, with warnings from the US Attorney's Office that the true figure could be as high as $9 billion.Ninety-two people have been arrested in connection with the scheme, 80 of whom are Somali immigrants.
On Tuesday night, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced it was freezing all child care payments to Minnesota -- which totaled $185 million in 2025 alone -- unless proof is provided that the payments are legitimate.
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More Daycare Fraud Suspected, This Time in Washington
—Ace
Via John Sexton, a citizen journalist went to the listed address of a "daycare" that's received $210,000 in federal funding this year.
But no one sees any kids enter the place, and the people at the address refuse to answer the door.
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Five Billion in "Questionable" Rental Assistance Went to Dead Tennants, Illegal Aliens Under Biden
—Ace
No wonder they loved covid so much.
While we were locked down, they were living the high life, on our dime.
We just saw new allegations that illegals and Somali pirates scammed the covid-era loans for businesses program.
$5B in 'questionable' rental assistance under Biden revealed -- including to thousands of 'deceased tenants' and non-citizens: HUD reportWASHINGTON -- A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to "questionable" rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration -- including around 30,000 "deceased tenants" and "thousands" of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal.
HUD officials said a "large concentration" of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states -- in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers' dollars under the Biden administration.
"A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden's watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration's failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments," HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.
...HUD's Office of the Chief Financial Officer uncovered $5.8 billion of the "questionable" payments out of nearly $50 billion in total federal rental assistance to public housing authorities, contractors, landlords and other non-federal entities in fiscal year 2024, the 183-page report disclosed.
The around 11% of taxpayer dollars from HUD went to more than 200,000 possibly ineligible tenants -- of whom 29,715 (around 14%) were dead, 9,472 (4%) were non-citizens and 165,393 (82%) were receiving sums that exceeded the threshold for assistance in their geographic region, particularly in New Orleans and other large metro areas.
The HUD programs are designed to help low-income residents who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford shelter -- and the possible grift means those truly in need could have been left out in the cold.
HUD officials faulted the Biden administration for a directive "to push funding out the door with minimal oversight" as well as rent assistance programs placing "substantial trust and responsibility in these non-federal entities ... to accurately assess tenant eligibility."
Now, HUD will have to reach out to the public housing authorities and other entities to confirm the extent of the fraud -- and either pause or revoke funding. Officials will also make criminal referrals when warranted.
"HUD is implementing processes and procedures to revoke or pause funding as part of its efforts to hold bad actors accountable," one official said. "Additionally, the Department could make criminal referrals and exercise other enforcement actions once it has confirmed fraud occurred."
We're still funding this?
And if you think Minnesota fraud is a scandal: Get a load of the massive industrial-scale looting in California.
A fresh 92-page bombshell from the California State Auditor lays it all out."This latest report was issued by the state auditor, and that's a nonpartisan position; that state auditor now puts eight state agencies on the high-risk list of agencies to watch out for, for things like fraud and mismanagement as well as waste," Newsmax correspondent Heather Myers revealed last week. "Here's a look at that 92-page report. Newly added to the high-risk list is California's food stamp program. If the state doesn't get the improper payments under control, it could cost an extra $2.5 billion. Also on there is the Department of Finance, which was tasked with giving out COVID relief funds. Critics say $32 billion of that was taken by fraudsters. Then there are infrastructure issues like California's deteriorating dams, and also the high-speed train that's already cost taxpayers 18 billion without a single section of track complete."
But wait, there's more!
"Other reports cite $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of. More recently, there's a report that says California cell phone users paid a surcharge for years to upgrade the state's 911 system," she added.
Tallied all up, California taxpayers lost $70 billion to fraud.
Tucker Carlson: No American Has Been Killed By Muslims... Since 9/11; Anti-Muslim "Hate" Is an Op by the Jews
—Ace
Good. The coward is getting a little more courageous. He feels less need to pretend he doesn't believe these things while having on guests who he encourages to say all the things he believes while pretending to be agnostic on these topics.
Now the coward is finally finding his own voice.
Harrison Berger @BergerPostsTucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) tells @amconmag that "hate the Muslims," is just another classic Israeli government psyop meant to propagandize Americans to believe that Israel's enemies are their own.
"I don't know anyone in the United States in the last 24 years who's been killed by radical Islam. I do know a lot of people who have killed themselves.
I know people who've died of drug ODs, more than a few. I know people who can't get jobs. None of the boys in my daughter's class can get jobs, none of those white boys can get jobs. They're being destroyed by Adderall and video games and porn.
I see millions of Americans being destroyed, and none of it is at the hands of radical Islam. Is radical Islam more dangerous than OnlyFans? It's not even close. Turning some huge percentage of American women into prostitutes. That's not radical Islam doing that, actually."
A few obvious points:
Leftwingers routinely begin counting deaths after 9/11 when they want to prove that White Supremacists kill more people than Islamic terrorists. Good to see that Tucker Carlson is embracing this "in the last twenty-four (not twenty five!) years" method of counting.
Apparently Tucker doesn't consider the many, many American soldiers killed by ISIS and Al Qaeda to be victims of radical Muslim violence. Or the American civilians captured by ISIS and beheaded on camera.
Oh wait, the did restrict his counting to those killed in the United States. Once again he puts special restrictions on who he will count and who he won't count, like a fucking leftist scumbag propagandist.
But he's definitely ignoring the people murdered by the Fort Hood Islamist psychiatrist. I guess he considers that "workplace violence" not radical Muslim terrorism -- once again, like a fucking leftist scumbag propagandist.
He ignores the people murdered at the Pulse nightclub, the people murdered by the husband-and-wife Islamist terrorist spree killers in California...
The perpetrators, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple living in the city of Redlands, targeted a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health training event and Christmas party of about 80 employees in a rented banquet room. Fourteen people were killed and 22 others were seriously injured. Farook was a Muslim and an American-born citizen of Pakistani descent, who worked as a health department employee. Malik was a Muslim and Pakistani-born green card holder. After the shooting, the couple fled in a rented Ford Expedition SUV. Four hours later, police pursued their vehicle and killed them in a shootout, which also left two officers injured.
...etc., etc., etc.
We have at least one or two Muslim terrorist attacks in America every year.
But the left won't admit they're terrorist attacks.
They vow "the motive may never be known."
And now Real Conservative Tucker Carlson joins them.
He's America First, you know.
Obviously Europe sees people slaughtered on the street or train every few months but that's "not in the United States." Are the Jews running ops in Europe, too?
(Of course they are.)
He just pretends all these deaths away. All incidents of workplace violence or shocking, motive-free violence that has nothing at all to do with Islam.
Again, he's adopting the hard leftwing position on all the terrorist murder we've suffered through for twenty five grisly years -- it didn't happen, and if it did happen, you're racist for noticing.
But he's the Real Conservative, huh?
Update: Oh my Lord, I forgot about the Boston Marathon bombing.
I also forgot about the jihadi car attacks -- you know, where a jihadi plows his truck into crowds of people, murdering them. And the media blames them on the vehicle. Vehicle kills 14.
"America First" Tucker blames the vehicle, too.
Eitan Fischberger @EFischbergerDec 26
A non-exhaustive list of Islamic terror attacks in the U.S. over the last 25 years:
🔸 Fort Hood shooting -- November 5, 2009 -- 13 killed
🔸 Little Rock recruiting office shooting --June 1, 2009 -- 1 killed
🔸 Boston Marathon bombing -- April 15, 2013 -- 3 killed
🔸 Chattanooga military recruiting center attack -- July 16, 2015 -- 5 killed
🔸 San Bernardino terrorist attack -- December 2, 2015 -- 14 killed
🔸 Pulse nightclub massacre -- June 12, 2016 -- 49 killed
🔸 New York City ISIS truck attack -- October 31, 2017 -- 8 killed
🔸 New Orleans ISIS truck attack -- January 1, 2025 -- 14 killed
🔸 Boulder, Colorado firebombing attack -- June 1, 2025 -- 1 killed
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
With another year in the books, let's see how I did at prognostication at the beginning of the year. I've never claimed clairvoyance and as we'll see, there's a reason for that.
Happy New Year, Horde!
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The Morning Report — 12/31/25
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. The big story, on this New Year's Eve, at least in the real world and not the Potemkin Village holographic illusion projected by the Democrat/Leftist Propaganda complex is the massive multi-billion dollar swindle perpetrated on the American people by Somali immigrants (invaders) and their Democrat Party protectors in Minnesota and elsewhere. No doubt that a not insignificant amount of the loot wound up in the pockets of credibly suspected pederast Tim Walz, incest practitioner and immigration fraudster Bro-Fo Omar, Jacob Frey and other local state and national Democrats from Minnesota as well as the coffers of the despicable anti-American Commie front group known as the Democrat Farm Labor Party, and the equally evil Islamic terror groups in Somallia that are now spilling rivers of blood in the horn of Africa and likely helping their compatriots slaughter Nigerian Christians and others in Central Africa.
It's the Brinks Job of Great Train Robberies of Teapot Domes. It's bigger than that and considering the transnational nature of the graft, it would not surprise me in the least and I fully expect that the Clintons have more than few drops of moisture on their beaks via the Clinton Global Initiative and massage parlor. As my mother of blessed memory observed way back when in '92 when these bastards came to prominence, that they had goniffed the entire state of Arkansas, and then from their lair in the West Wing somehow swindled millions in aid money that was supposed to go to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane. Epstein is small potatoes, The Minnesota strip is where the action is.
Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill announced the agency has paused child care payments in Minnesota due to alleged child daycare fraud. . . 1. I have activated our defend the spend system for all ACF payments. Starting today, all ACF payments across America will require a justification and a receipt or photo evidence before we send money to a state.2. Alex Adams and I have identified the individuals in @nickshirleyy’s excellent work. I have demanded from @GovTimWalz a comprehensive audit of these centers. This includes attendance records, licenses, complaints, investigations, and inspections.
3. We have launched a dedicated fraud-reporting hotline and email address at https://childcare.gov Whether you are a parent, provider, or member of the general public, we want to hear from you.
It's probably safe to assume that judges Buch M. Danno and Moe Loki from the Banzai Pipeline court of appeals will have a restraining order issued by the time this posts.
The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees. Judge Amy Berman ruled that the CFPB should continue to get its funds from the Federal Reserve, despite the Fed operating at a loss, and that the White House’s new legal argument about how the CFPB gets its funds is not valid.At the heart of this case is whether Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s budget director and the acting director of the CFPB, can effectively shut down the agency and lay off all of the bureau’s employees. The CFPB has largely been inoperable since President Trump has sworn into office nearly a year ago. Its employees are mostly forbidden from doing any work, and most of the bureau’s operations this year has been to unwind the work it did under [so-called quote-unquote] President Biden and even under Trump’s first term.
As you can see she has been singularly focused on destroying President Trump and anyone and everyone who supports him, including anyone who was even thinking that 2020 was stolen, let alone who showed up to DC to actually protest on 1/6/21.
The CFPB is an utterly illegal anti-constitutional politburo that as it was established has no congressional oversight, can directly fund itself without approval or any check on it by Congress and as such wields unprecedented power over the economy and therefore over the individual rights of the citizenry. In the words of President Trump almost from day one of his second term:
CFPB Isn’t a Wall Street Regulator, It’s a Main Street Regulator — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren — has long functioned as another woke, weaponized arm of the bureaucracy that leverages its power against certain industries and individuals disfavored by so-called “elites.”
For example:
CFPB used its slush fund — collected from targeting financial institutions — to support radical advocacy groups. One such group is the Soros-backed Mississippi Center for Justice, which advocates for “racial and economic justice,” targets religious liberty, and assists illegal immigrants seeking to skirt our nation’s laws. Another is The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, whose board features senior left-wing officials and has lobbied hundreds of times for more welfare spending. -- CFBP threatened banks for refusing to lend to illegal immigrants. --CFPB targeted a Chicago small business after it complained about the city’s rampant crime. -- CFPB was accused of mining American citizens’ personal financial information — with a 2017 inspector general’s report raising significant concerns about its data security. -- CFPB granted itself broad new powers in the waning hours of the lame duck Biden administration. Described as classic “government overreach,” the agency gave itself the authority to regulate Americans’ checking accounts by dictating government price controls and unilaterally buried $50 billion in medical debt.
And Mr. President, please forget about this new fleet of battleships and instead expand ICE by a factor of at least 10, with a grand fleet of paddy wagons and Pinochet airliners to Deport the illegal aliens.
PS, Eric Swalwell cannot Fang-Fang himself off this planet fast enough to suit me.
So if the president is going to send ICE agents to chase immigrants through the fields where they work, what I’m going to do is make sure that they take off their masks and show their faces, that they show their identification. And if they commit crimes that they’re going to be charged with crimes, if it’s falsely imprisoning people, if it’s kidnapping, if it’s assault battery, they’re going to be held accountable. I also think if the governor has the ability to issue driver’s licenses to people in California, if you’re going to wear a mask and not identify yourself, you’re not going to be eligible to drive a vehicle in California. There’s a lot you can do, but most importantly, you have to go on offense. Otherwise, the most vulnerable in our community will always be on defense.”
This filthy piece of shit needs to be ______________ you complete the sentence, just be discreet!
Have a great day and stay safe and enjoy the celebrations this New Year's eve!
I for one will be watching Jack Benny and Alexis Smith in The Horn Blows At Midnight. If I could only flip between that and Guy Lombardo and Dick Clark, I could recreate my childhood New Year's Eve ritual!
And here's wishing all of you a very happy healthy and prosperous 2026.
And lastly, a quick shout-out and a huge thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.
- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- From the ‘Maryland man’ to that ‘misleading edit,’ liberals flooded the zone with falsities aimed again at stopping Trump. They failed.
The Left’s Top 25 Lies Of 2025
- “Measles symptoms include a high fever, cough, runny nose, watery red eyes, and a rash that usually appears between three and five days after symptoms begin,” the release says.
World’s most contagious virus detected at 2 major US airports amid peak holiday traffic
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Daily Tech News 31 December 2025
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- The problem with letting AI do the grunt work. (The Atlantic) (archive site)
Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I'd scored a copy job for a how-to website. An early task involved expanding upon an article titled "How to Get Rid of Dark Lips." For the next two years, I worked on articles with headlines such as "How to Speak Like a Stereotypical New Yorker (With Examples)", "How to Eat an Insect or Arachnid," and "How to Acquire a Gun License in New Jersey." I didn't get rich or win literary awards, but I did learn how to write a clean sentence, convey information in a logical sequence, and modulate my tone for the intended audience - skills that I use daily in my current work in screenwriting, film editing, and corporate communications.
Not seeing the problem here to be honest.
The author's latest feature film, How to Write Slop for Fun and Profit, is airing nowhere now.
- 2025 was Hollywood's year of creative bankruptcy. (PCGamer)
I mean, more so than usual.
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Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 30, 2025 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Tuesday night ONT has arrived. It's also the penultimate day and penultimate ONT of the year. Not to be confused with the ultimate pen. Is there such a thing as the ultimate pen? Bic? Montblanc? Parker? Erasermate? Whatever. Let's get this penultimate party started!
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Pouncing School Cafe
—Ace
Little pup finds the warmest bed.
Dog tries, unsuccessfully, to interest a cat in playing with him.
Clever Puppy. Or possibly AI.
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As Questions About Ilan "Omar's" Sudden Fortune Grow, Her Husband Begins Deleting Information from His "Venture Capital" Website
—Ace
Venture capital, huh?
Bet he has a lot of Somali "investors."
Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband's venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details -- including former Obama officials -- as scrutiny grows over the family's skyrocketing wealth, The Post has learned.Omar (D-Minn.) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year -- as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in the North Star State.
Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty "Squad" member, though she has not been accused of wrongdoing.
It was Somalia-born Omar -- who was seen in a resurfaced video last month dishing out food in a restaurant now at the heart of the scandal -- who introduced the legislation that critics say paved the way for what the feds have called the largest fraud of the pandemic.
The Jimmy Choo-wearing socialist introduced the MEALS Act in Congress in 2020, relaxing oversight of government-sponsored children's meal programs during the pandemic, which critics say allowed fraudsters to claim they served millions of meals without verification, while pocketing millions of dollars in government subsidies.
Shortly after the scheme played out, Omar's husband, political consultant Tim Mynett, launched Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital management firm, in 2022.
The company saw its reported value go from nearly zero in 2023 to between $5 million and $25 million in just a year, and touted its officers' $60 billion in "previous" assets under management -- an amount many Wall Street money managers only dream of."There's a lot of strange things going on," said Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center. "She was basically broke when she came into office and now she's worth perhaps up to $30 million ... she needs to come clean on these assets."
Rose Lake Capital, which touts its "deep global networks built from on-the-ground work in more than 80 countries," had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to Omar's financial disclosure.
Yet despite the reported windfall, the business's only address is a WeWork in DC, according to its LinkedIn page.
WeWork is a business that lets you rent out temporary, shared office space. So this multimillion dollar "global" capital venture firm doesn't have an actual permanent office.
Between September and October -- when federal prosecutors announced charges against eight more individuals, including six of Somali descent, for their roles in the welfare scheme -- the names and bios of Rose Lake Capital's nine officers and advisers were removed from the website. None of them were charged in the fraud.
These names include lobbyist and former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Senator and Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough; and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, who once described Amalgamated as "the institutional bank of the Democratic Party."Meanwhile, Mynett's other business, a California winery that previously faced fraud allegations and was declared a failed venture in 2023, was suddenly worth between $1 million and $5 million in 2024 -- a windfall of 9,900%.
Sounds like money laundering. "To conceal the source of money as by channeling it through an intermediary."
...It too is listed as operating out of a WeWork, and doesn't appear to actually sell any wines anymore, according to extensive internet searches.
Despite the high worth placed on the business, its website is a broken link, the phone number is disconnected and the last social media post for the winery dates back to 2023.
"While working families were being ripped off by a massive welfare scam, Omar's campaign took money from convicted fraudsters, her husband launched a firm that suddenly ballooned in value, and [Minnesota Gov.] Tim Walz looked the other way," according to Kiersten Pels, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.
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Mynett did not return The Post's messages, and both his businesses' numbers were not working.
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With Discovery of Rampant Somali Piracy, Small Business Administration Head Kelly Loeffler Stops Federal Grants to Minnesota
—Ace
Closing the barn doors after Biden let the horse thieves empty it.
SBA halts grants to Minnesota in wake of fraud scandalSmall Business Administration (SBA) head Kelly Loeffler said Monday that her department is halting annual grants to Minnesota, amid an investigation into alleged fraud in COVID-era lending programs.
Loeffler said on the social platform X that the SBA is pausing yearly funding to Minnesota "while we investigate $430 million in suspected [Paycheck Protection Program] fraud across the state."
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was established by the 2020 CARES Act, which passed Congress and was signed into law by President Trump during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The House Committee on Small Business has launched a probe into "fraud and concealment" within the PPP and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, also formed during the pandemic.
Loeffler sent a letter last week to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) outlining at least $2.5 million in PPP and EIDL loans sent to individuals indicted as part of a wide-ranging investigation into fraud involving Minnesota's social services.
So I assume the scam would involve foreign fraudsters claiming that they had going businesses, employing, of course, their mentally retarded criminal family members, and took "loans" from the federal government to keep these unemployed lowlife parasites "employed" in their jobs of sitting around collecting welfare from actual Americans.
Loeffler explains herself at Fox News:
When the news broke of convictions for rampant fraud across several pandemic programs in Minnesota, the $1 billion price tag and over 90 indictments were staggering. We now know this is a very low estimate of the price Americans have paid to fund deeply corrupt state-administered welfare programs.The criminal nature of the scandal rocked the country: a vast network of Somali nonprofits systematically ripped off federal programs and denied Minnesota families of vital services at the height of the pandemic. In defrauding programs for nutrition, education and healthcare, the massive and sophisticated enterprise siphoned billions in taxpayer dollars.
Thanks to lax oversight under Democrat Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, organized crime crept in and then brazenly flourished. Even when dozens of whistleblowers repeatedly raised concerns to state oversight bodies and to his own office, Walz simply blamed racism and shrugged off the allegations.
The governor recently defended the state's "generosity" which allowed Somali fraudsters to purchase luxury cars, homes and vacations at the expense of hungry Minnesotans. Its welfare state is widely considered a magnet for those seeking to become beneficiaries. Alarmingly, welfare is now the state's single-largest annual expenditure -- higher than education, highways and public safety.
But new investigations have revealed that fraud runs much deeper than initially suspected, including at the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
During the pandemic, the agency issued $1.2 trillion in loans, helping save millions of small businesses and jobs. Much of that lending was legitimate, and many of the loans were forgiven, consistent with the 2020 CARES Act legislation. But the program was expanded in 2021 and became rife with fraud -- at least $200 billion, most of which went completely unaddressed and largely forgiven under the Biden administration.
At my direction, SBA launched an investigation into the Minnesota fraudsters. It took just days to find about $3 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) for numerous indicted nonprofits, including groups like Feeding our Future and Action for East African People.
With this disproportionate level of possible fraud -- and ongoing allegations arising across other federal programs -- we broadened our scope to investigate every COVID-19 loan granted in Minnesota. In a matter of weeks, we uncovered a staggering 13,600 PPP loans that were flagged for fraud but later approved, totaling about $430 million in potentially fraudulent funds that should have been used to save Main Street jobs and businesses. In many cases, the loans were forgiven entirely.
On Dec. 23, I informed the governor that SBA has halted about $5.5 million in annual funding to Minnesota pending further review, in an effort to prevent taxpayer dollars in a state that clearly lacks appropriate controls to responsibly steward federal funds. And we are actively working with our law enforcement partners to hold criminals accountable for the possible pandemic-era fraud now under investigation.One thing is clear: the sheer breadth of fraud in Minnesota proves that the abuse of federal dollars is endemic to the state's welfare system -- and the logical consequence of socialist programs designed to pump out funding without accountability. Other states should be on notice.
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With over 80 federal welfare programs that spend $1 trillion annually, there is much work to do. The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing bad actors and implementing reforms to protect welfare programs for real American families who need it -- while also ensuring it is a lifeline, not a lifestyle.
Leaders in Minnesota have not been interested in or capable of meeting that mission, and the developing scandals raise serious questions about what may be going on in states like California and Illinois. The Trump administration is committed to exposing welfare abuse everywhere it exists -- and enforcing accountability in states that have allowed fraud to fester at the expense of law-abiding Americans and taxpayers.
It might not be just Somali fraud rings plundering our nation:
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Entertainment and Media Sector Sheds 17,000 Jobs in 2025, Up 18% from 2024's Job Losses
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Survive until 2025, they said after covid and the twin strikes, expecting that 2025 would be a comeback year for the media.
That has not happened.
And 2026 will be worse.
The media is dying. It's finally dying and nothing can save it now.
The entertainment and media industries bled more than 17,000 jobs in 2025, the latest in a brutal, ongoing contraction that's left newsrooms, studios and streaming giants hollowed out by consolidation, cost-cutting and the accelerating use of artificial intelligence.US-based media companies spanning TV, film, digital publishing and broadcast announced 17,163 job cuts through November, an 18% increase from 2024, according to data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Layoffs surged fivefold in 2023 compared to the prior year as companies moved aggressively to slash costs, unwind failed growth bets and prepare investors for a leaner future.
In corporate business generally -- not just the media -- 54,000 jobs were lost to AI automation. That will eventually decimate the media.
...The Paramount Skydance merger led to the elimination of roughly 2,000 positions, while Warner Bros. Discovery and NBCUniversal each launched their own restructuring campaigns this past year -- cutting staff ahead of planned cable spinoffs as traditional television revenue continued to erode.
Newsrooms continue to be hard hit, with advertising declines and shifting audience habits forcing publishers to shrink.
News organizations logged 2,254 job cuts this year, including 179 in November. The total actually marked a 50% drop from last year's pace, according to Challenger data.
The Washington Post, which billionaire owner Jeff Bezos has sought to overhaul, cut roughly 4% of its workforce around the start of the year -- about 100 ink-stained wretches -- after posting an estimated $100 million loss in 2024 tied in part to digital ad weakness.
CNN eliminated about 200 jobs early in 2025 as it pivoted toward digital operations and prepared for corporate restructuring tied to its parent's cable strategy, while CBS News laid off about 100 staffers in October and canceled multiple streaming news programs.
Hollywood's creative collapse will bring down the movie exhibition industry -- theaters -- as well.
Some comeback!The past 12 months were supposed to turn things around for struggling cinemas. But instead of heralding a dramatic return to moviegoing, 2025 is running neck-and-neck with the middling 2024 box office, and will fall far short of the $9 billion in domestic ticket sales that most analysts expected the theatrical movie business to easily eclipse. Prior to the pandemic, North American revenues would regularly hit between $10 billion to $11 billion. The 2025 results are a massive disappointment that no amount of spin can change. (Already there's talk of how much better 2026 will be.)
Yes but they thought 2025 would be better. "Survive until 25."
"There's an unfortunate trend, which that we just can't get the industry to $9 billion at the domestic box office," says Mike Sherrill, the chief operating officer of dine-in cinema chain Alamo Drafthouse. "It looks like it's going to be two years in a row that the industry flatlined."
More worrisome is the reality that many of the movie business's biggest franchises are showing signs of oversaturation or fatigue. Marvel continued to struggle with its B Team heroes; February's "Captain America: Brave New World" and May's "Thunderbolts" lost tens of millions during their theatrical runs, while July's "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" will only eke out a modest profit. And even though "Avatar: Fire and Ash" ($760 million and counting), "Wicked: For Good" ($504 million) and "Jurassic World Rebirth" ($869 million) will rank among the year's top-grossing releases, they will fail to match the revenues of previous films in their respective series. Clearly, the theatrical industry can't thrive on sequels and spinoffs alone.
It would be easy to declare an end to comic book movies. That said, genres have risen and fallen throughout Hollywood history -- just look at musicals or westerns or raunchy comedies, which have faded in popularity after once being surefire draws. What really has theater owners and some studio chiefs concerned as the year closes out is what the future will hold if Netflix is able to secure government approval for its $82.7 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Already, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has hinted that he believes that "windows," industry jargon for the amount of time that movies play exclusively in theaters, are too long. He told Wall Street shortly after the pact was announced that he expects that they will "evolve" in a more "consumer friendly" direction. Everyone knows exactly what he meant by that.
Yes, they mean that they're going to crush theatrical exhibition and set themselves up as a monopoly for showing movies. I can't see how the Justice Department can approve this.
Don't worry, Netflix knows exactly what the public wants to see.
A series of teenagers coming out as gay, from sea to fabulous sea.
Critics are review-bombing "Stranger Things'" penultimate episode, calling character Will Byers' coming-out scene "cringey" and accusing the creators of prioritizing politics over storytelling.In the show's most recent episode, "The Bridge," Will gathers all his friends and family for a tearful confession, telling them that he's just like his friends in almost every way -- except, he says, "I don't like girls." Fans noted that the timing of his monologue seemed odd and forced, as the cast was in the middle of trying to defeat Vecna, the series' villain.
"Woke ruins everything," one user wrote on X, blasting the development as "LGBTQ+ nonsense."
"Netflix decided to RUIN their most popular show of all-time, Stranger Things, by focusing their final season on Will coming out as a homosexual, promoting the propaganda that Will's superpowers are because he's 'embraced his sexuality' & the villain telling Will that his friends won't like him if they find out he likes dudes..." he added.
Another user said, "How did Stranger Things go from such a great show to the only way they could defeat Vecna is if Will tells everyone he's gay first."
Brandon Leslie, founder and CEO of Florida's Voice and RightLine news, also weighed in by seizing on a tweet that discussed creators Matt and Ross Duffer's intent for the scene, more specifically that Byers had to face his fears and accept himself in order to fully face Vecna.
"Netflix is doubling down on pushing the gay agenda -- the 16-year-old boy couldn't kill a dark magic demon unless he came out of the closet," he wrote, adding, "Horrible and forced."
The now-infamous scene wasn't the only source of upset, as other fans critiqued the final season's pacing, acting, plot and more.
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One user likened the latest season to "Game of Thrones," arguing that both were too rushed to adequately complete the story.
I watched the first season and quit watching in the second season, two or three shows in. I never understood the hype. It was a semi-cute idea, but... who cares.
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Minnesota Retard Tim Walz: Akshually The Real Fraudsters and Criminals Are White Men
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This message paid for by Make America Somalia Again.
Tim Walz, who insists that he's been the real Fraud Detective all along, now tells us that the real criminals behind all the fraud in Minnesota are white men.
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Somali Pirate "Day Care Centers" Are Suddenly Filled (Well, not "Filled") With Rent-a-Kids
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The Quality "Learing" Center Minneapolis, a purported day care flagged in a viral video designed to expose fraud, may have been bustling with kids Monday, but it is typically such a ghost town that it appeared closed, a local told The Post.The resident called the kiddie scene at the site Monday -- a few days after explosive footage called it out and suggested it was part of widespread state fraud -- "highly unusual.
"We've never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed," the person said.
Monday's busy parking lot and the roughly 20 kids streaming in and out as The Post staked out the site were in stark contrast to the neighbor's description and YouTuber Nick Shirley's video showing what appeared to be a facility that wasn't in use.
"You do realize there's supposed to be 99 children here in this building, and there's no one here?" Shirley asked the person answering the door to the site in his clip, which was posted online Friday.
No children appeared to be at the center at the time. The facility says its hours are Monday to Thursday, 2 to 10 p.m.
Ibrahim Ali, the son of the owner who said he was the manager, claimed to The Post on Monday that Shirley's visit came before they opened for the day.
"Do you go to a coffee shop at 11 p.m. and say, 'Hey, they're not working'?" Ali argued to The Post.
He also blamed a graphic designer for the now-infamous typo on the site's sign.
"What I understand is [the owners] dealt with a graphic designer. He did it incorrectly. I guess they didn't think it was a big issue," said Ali, 26, who claimed he helps out with homework and paperwork at the facility.
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Ali said there were about 16 kids inside the center Monday afternoon.
Sixteen? I thought 99 Phantom Children were enrolled here.
...A woman opening the center at 2 p.m. Monday said Shirley's reporting was inaccurate.
"We don't have fraud. That's a lie," she said, adding, "I don't want to talk to you. I want to talk to my lawyer."
Outside the center, another worker took out his smartphone to record a Post reporter who was asking him questions about the situation.
"Don't f--king come to this area. Get the f--k out of here," the employee said angrily.
Sounds like some of the Pirates are considering the Josh Gerstein Second Amendment Solutions.
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